Elon Musk told CNBC’s David Faber that the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story was “election interference” and it was a “terrible thing that happened.” Musk added, “Some of these conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.”
Musk said of China: “The Chinese economy and the rest of the global economy are like conjoined twins. It would be like trying to separate conjoined twins. That’s the severity of the situation. And it’s actually worse for a lot of other companies than it is for Tesla. I mean, I’m not sure where you’re going to get an iPhone, for example.”
Below is a recap of what Elon Musk said Twitter compiled by a Twitter user: Elon works 7 days a week, and there are only 2-3 days every year in which he doesn’t do some sort of meaningful work.
He sleeps 6 hours a night.
Linda Yaccarino will operate Twitter, while Elon builds products.
Linda will also hire some people, including rehiring people who were let go. Twitter employment went from about 7800 to 1500 employees after Elon took over.
Elon’s goal for X (Twitter) is for it to be a ‘cybernetic collective mind for society.’
He said that “Information needs to move quickly, be accurate, and have error correction.”
Twitter lost $40 million in advertising because 2 big advertisers got ‘community noted.’
On the election, he said Biden won the election and that the election wasn’t stolen, but he doesn’t particularly like Biden. He said he “wants a normal human being” to be President and that the President needs to be “a good executive” of the country.
He said there definitely was fraud on both sides, but definitely not enough to change the results of the election.
On yesterday’s George Soros fiasco, Elon said he is not anti-semitic like people claim. In fact, he called himself a “pro-semite.”
When asked why he involves himself in politics and things people will not be happy with him saying, he said, “I’m reminded of a scene in ‘Princess Bride’ where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says ‘offer me money, offer me power, I don’t care,’ meaning he really just doesn’t care what other people think.
Specifically Elon said, “I’ll say what I say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.”
He believes that paid verification on Twitter is the best solution to prevent AI manipulation.
Elon called Paypal “a half-baked version of what it could be.” He plans to spend time making a more efficient financial system on X.
He said that AI has a non-zero chance of destroying society, but it’s a very small chance.
Elon gave $50 million or so to OpenAI, and he said that he’s the reason OpenAI exists.
Elon talked about how he used to be great friends with Google co-founder Larry Page, and he used to spend the night over his house. He said Page wasn’t concerned with the dangers that AI could pose and that concerned him.
He closed with a message to future generations, saying “Work on things that you find interesting and fulfilling and contributes to the rest of society.”
Elon Musk calls the suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop story “election interference”… “Some of these conspiracy theories have turned out to be true.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2023
This is the most important 90 seconds in any interview ever.
God bless @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1ZFhdB0dOH
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 17, 2023
